At Google Cloud, block storage in the form of disks emulating physical drives and attached to a compute layer is used by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Compute Engine (GCE). An operating system recognizes block storage as a volume that can be formatted so applications can use it. Compute Engine instance has, by default,…
Other AWS Technical Resources
Other AWS Technical Resources While the preceding resources are nothing short of amazing, there are plenty of other technical resources that you might want to avail yourself of. Here are some of the biggest that you should know: AWS Prescriptive Guidance: This AWS website provides best practice strategies, guides, and patterns to help with your…
AWS Technical Resources – CLF-C02 Study Guide
AWS Technical Resources Let’s begin this chapter with a tour of the many technical resources that are available for you when it comes to AWS. As mentioned earlier, many of these incredible resources are available completely free of charge. Documentation, Whitepapers, and Blogs The AWS documentation is very good. It is an excellent mix of…
Creating a bucket in practice – Google Exams Guide
Imagine setting up a Google Cloud Storage bucket for storing a copy of your backup data of the on-premises systems located in your data center in Frankfurt. You want your bucket to be the closest to your data center location and be available even if one of the Google regions fails. You expect the data…
Pricing Calculator – CLF-C02 Study Guide
Pricing Calculator The AWS Pricing Calculator is a handy tool that lets you estimate how much your AWS usage will cost before you actually start using it. You can pick and choose the services you need and adjust the settings to match your usage, and the calculator gives you a price tag. It allows you…
Using gsutil as a command-line tool
Google Cloud Storage offers an automated command line tool, gsutil, to manage bucket and object level operations such as create, list, delete, move, and copy on a larger scale.You can start by using gsutil from the Cloud Shell and practice the following commands:• To create a unique-name-of-the-bucket bucket with a standard storage class in the…
AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Billing and Cost Management AWS Billing and Cost Management is the service you use to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and budget your current and future costs. AWS automatically charges the credit card you provided when you signed up for a new account with AWS. Charges appear on your credit card bill…
Spot Instance Pricing – CLF-C02 Study Guide
Spot Instance Pricing One of the most interesting pricing plans for AWS compute resources is the Spot Instance pricing plan. With this pricing plan, users can bid on unused compute capacity available with AWS. Since the compute resources are unused, AWS offers them at a remarkable discount of up to 90% when compared to the…
Data lifecycle – Google Exams Guide
Storage classes work best when the frequency of operations on objects in a bucket can be predicted. But what about unpredictable access patterns? Although you can change the storage class of an individual object via a command line (a storage class is a metadata of an object), this could be unprofitable because the object will…
On-Demand Instance Pricing
On-Demand Instance Pricing The default pricing model when you use AWS EC2 to spin up virtual machine resources is the On-Demand Instance pricing model. This is a hugely popular option, and it is not just because it is the default. With this model, you are not committed to any baseline amount of usage. You can…